Defendant in Great Yarmouth murder claims he had nothing to do with beating man to death

One of four men accused of the murder of a Lithuanian man, in Great Yarmouth, whose body was found in a stairwell in a block of flats told a flatmate he had nothing to do with the death, a court heard.

One of the four defendants, accused of beating a man to death, in Great Yarmouth, confessed to his housemate he had no involvement in the death, before fleeing back to Lithuania, a court heard.

The body of Paulius Jakovlevas, 38, was found at the bottom of communal stairs at the flat in Wellesley Road, in the early hours of November 11, last year.

The jury at Norwich Crown Court, heard that Mr Jacovlevas had been drinking with the four men when an argument started over his tattoo and after he was beaten to death, his body was dumped at the bottom of the stairs.